A review by secrethistory
Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Nan Goldin

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

This was truly top notch. Skillful photographs explore relationships of all sorts—friends, friends as family, romantic, sexual, addictive, relationships with drugs, relationships with monetary exchange—and many combinations thereof. It’s a book about the depths and shallowness of human emotions, the physical and emotional pain and the ecstasy of humans coming together, the duality of independence and interdependence. It’s as vulnerable as an open wound, and made me panic and cry and smile and feel like I had some of these memories. Throughout the book, the sense is very much that these photographs all make up someone’s life, when viewed together. I think Nan’s memories have a lot to tell us about the ways we love. 
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